Example sentences of "not see the [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Forest loom in the FA Cup in the New Year , and if United , who had their lowest League crowd of the season on Saturday and are now only six points ahead of the bottom club City , still can not see the wood for the trees , somebody will be in for the chop .
2 But that is a pity , for then they do not see the wood for the trees .
3 Most clients were too close to their organisation — they could not see the wood for the trees — to solve many of their senior recruiting problems .
4 Sometimes you could not see the food for the trees .
5 However , Gayoom said that he did not see the need for a formal defence treaty between the two countries although India would continue to train the Maldives ' security forces .
6 Having read the resolution of the 1990 Congress of the Communist Party , I am in broad agreement with the positions adopted , except for one : I do not see the need for an ‘ association ’ alongside the Party .
7 We do not see the need for the level to be higher in diabetics than in non-diabetics .
8 ‘ Then you are a trifle short-sighted and do not see the general for the particular .
9 While the BBC told us it would be ‘ done ’ in the best possible taste , there will still be many viewers who found the scenes last night disturbing those who can not see the forest for the trees .
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